Comments for Teen Skepchickhttp://teenskepchick.org
The future of skepticismMon, 27 Jul 2015 19:39:28 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3Comment on Ashley Madison: Protecting Those We Dislike by kagehihttp://teenskepchick.org/2015/07/22/ashley-madison-protecting-those-we-hate/#comment-3059
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:39:28 +0000http://teenskepchick.org/?p=20197#comment-3059Course, there is also the “default” assumption that sleeping with someone when you spouse knows, and approves of it, is still “cheating”. Err.. So, borrowing someone’s car is the same as stealing it? We treat are supposed “partners” as property, then, when it involves sex, we treat the situation in a way that we wouldn’t **even with** any other sort of property. They are “hyper-property”, or something, with all different rules, despite the fact that, other than the few times some moron has tried to make it illegal, said “property” has the right to walk away from you. Its ridiculous, and imho, stupid, and, honestly, if my car could “choose” to find another driver, because it didn’t like the places I took it, or got bored, we would see just as many people beating it with a bat, attempting to disown it, or jealously following it around, to find out who it was cheating on. We expect respect from other people, yet we act like children, or lunatics, when other people are involved.

Yet, somehow, its people who try to keep their rather different view of what is a “normal” way of dealing with their sex lives out of the public, and discrete, as though they are personally attacking us, and therefore need to be tracked down and exposed. Why exactly? So those who object can do the equivalent of reverting to a 4 years old, and whine, “So and so has cooties!!!”? This solves what exactly?

So, some food for thought to the people that think this was “just deserts”, or some such nonnsense: If you find your own “partner” visiting one of these places themselves, without you knowing it, well then “partner”, maybe the problem isn’t that such services exist. Maybe… you need to figure out what the F you are doing wrong, that led them to think they needed to use them. Or, here is a thought, maybe they are, as the article’s author suggests, just not in, nor ever will be in, a frame of mind, themselves, to be this silly thing called “monogamous”.

Because, I have seen a discussion on the subject, and… wow does it get silly fast. Invariably, you get the “pure monogamy” buff babbling that its “totally impossible” for a person to truly develop serious relationships with more than one person at a time, and everyone else asking the clown who says this, “So… you have no close friends, you hate your relatives, you don’t speak to anyone form highschool, you ignore your coworkers, and otherwise have **no** close relationships with anyone at all, other than you wife/girlfriend/boyfriend?” Which is followed by, “Well, no, I do have strong relationships with them too, but its different!” To which is replied, “Yeah, but somehow you seem to think that when ‘sex’/’marriage’ gets involved its some special, magical, category, where ‘different levels of connection’ are impossible, and all of the rules for ***every other relationship you have*** get thrown out. Why?”

There is never, ever, a coherent response to this last answer, just a nearly religious assertion that there **must be** such thing, because, despite everything from the ancient days when the same church that now claims monogamy is normal used to run the brothels, to romantic love being “what you did on the side, with a mistress”, to… you name any time in history, when humans have **never** manages this “special category” for sexual relationships, to which normal rules of varied friendship, or even casual encounter, has never existed, by god, there **must be** some sort of special rule for the person I have decided I, sort of, more or less, “own”.

Snort.. Yeah, that is exactly the “special” category I imagine most of us want to find ourselves in…

I think you know with which camp my sympathies, not to mention reason and hope for sanity, lay.

While this crowdfunding idea is not the *worst* idea, I don’t see how it would have any chance in hell, unfortunately.

]]>Comment on Why the world is angry at Joss Whedon (or a few marvel fans at least) by floatingmanateehttp://teenskepchick.org/2015/05/05/why-the-world-is-angry-at-joss-whedon-or-a-few-marvel-fans-at-least/#comment-3055
Wed, 06 May 2015 23:12:25 +0000http://teenskepchick.org/?p=20025#comment-3055Glad to hear that
I’d agree, I do like Joss Whedon’s work and I’m fairly sure there’s been a lot of compromising going on with that movie, as much as I love a good superhero movie it was a little all over the place (more so than usual). I do think a reason for why the back lash has been so large is because of Joss’ reputation as a writer of strong women so fans were expecting more, but like you said people love their money.
]]>Comment on Why the world is angry at Joss Whedon (or a few marvel fans at least) by oniraptorhttp://teenskepchick.org/2015/05/05/why-the-world-is-angry-at-joss-whedon-or-a-few-marvel-fans-at-least/#comment-3054
Wed, 06 May 2015 19:00:16 +0000http://teenskepchick.org/?p=20025#comment-3054I’m new to the site but I found your article fair and interesting.
I would have to agree that Joss has chickened out by dropping twitter but it doesn’t seem that surprising.
His last couple of interviews, even written ones, made him seem tired. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that there was a lot of compromising that occurred.
Since none of the female characters were even included in any of the merchandising put out for the movie, although, Black Widow was fairly prominent in the merchandising for the first one. Old white men want their money. And Joss’ take on feminism is fairly passe these days.
]]>Comment on Speak Your Mind: Favorite Toys by robster74http://teenskepchick.org/2013/07/31/speak-your-mind-favorite-toys/#comment-3053
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:00:03 +0000http://teenskepchick.org/?p=17460#comment-3053Love this article, reminds me of being young and loving the toys we all have before games consoles came along like Jumpster Trampolines
]]>Comment on The Not So Beautiful Game, Step 11 and Last: In Which Our Narrator Dispenses Parting Cliches by faradnhttp://teenskepchick.org/2015/02/26/the-not-so-beautiful-game-step-11-and-last-in-which-our-narrator-dispenses-parting-cliches/#comment-3052
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:53:35 +0000http://teenskepchick.org/?p=19936#comment-3052Thanks for reading this so I didn’t have to! …Actually I probably wouldn’t have read it anyway. But now that decision is even better informed.
]]>